Move Your Bus encourages leaders to identify and support key performers who drive the organization forward, and to manage resources efficiently by recognizing distinct employee roles.
Main Lessons
- Identify five roles within an organization: drivers, runners, joggers, walkers, and riders.
- Focus efforts on supporting runners who consistently perform at high levels.
- Avoid expending excessive resources on trying to elevate ‘riders’ to higher roles.
- Encourage self-awareness in employees to recognize their role and potential.
- Invest in training and rewarding high performers to maintain momentum.
- Avoid focusing exclusively on uplifting lower performers to neglecting top talent.
- Successful organizations are driven by the collective push of their most effective members.
- Promote a positive and energetic environment where effort and achievement are celebrated.
- Managers should evaluate productivity pragmatically, focusing on output rather than tenure.
- It is valuable to embrace mistakes made by proactive employees as a part of growth.
- Administrators should strive for productivity distribution that effectively utilizes all talent
- Creating a culture of accountability and initiative is essential for growth.
- Acknowledge and break organizational inertia by rewarding initiative and innovation.